Answer to Question #195740 in English for Jesslyn Josiah

Question

Describe and discuss Prof E van Neikerks views on the relationship among God - human and the environment (theanthropocosmic) and anthropocosmic principles in light of politics of environment management

Answer 1

Sense-making patterns, systems, and views embrace in their complexity, and sometimes in their simplicity, all of the people’s experience, mainly as everyday opinions and views which are not too much reflexively stirred and treated in scientific and theoretical cauldrons and aroused and awakened in forums of debate and discussion. While these dynamic, shifting, moving, and changing patterns, systems and views play an overarching and pervasive role in people’s everyday existence, including their scientific endeavors, many people are unaware of the outlines and profiles of these patterns. Their sense-making views remain ‘undercover’ and unspoken in large parts of their daily experience. Only when they ask themselves or are asked by others why and how a specific and particular instance or event, usually in a crisis or survival situation makes sense, their senses as sense-making receptors and feeders of their fields and modes of experience are enacted as sense-making reflective devices which deliver the sensibility or non-sensibility of the instance or event. It is usually not meant to ask a person on the spot to give a description and explanation of his or her sense-making orientation, confessional framework, the pattern of religion, or God-life-and-world view. Apart from the fact that such a question is very abstract and mostly not to the point, people usually do not reflect on their own views, approaches, orientations, or patterns about the coterminous connection and otherness of God with their human selves as well as the connection and otherness of their selves with other human beings and the physical-organic world environment in which they are enveloped like animals living in air or water. The mysterious coterminous connection and otherness of the threesome of God, humanity, and the physical-organic world environment is apparent in people’s day-to-day experience insubstantial and taken for granted but is a vital element in the whole scheme of things.